Wednesday, July 24, 2013

This Saturday July 27 from 10 AM to 6 PM I'll be exhibiting at the MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART in Chicago's SATURDAY STRIP, with two tables full of King-Cat Comix and other fine comic book releases from around the world!

Also exhibiting: Quimby's, CAKE, Megan Kirby, and Ezra Clayton Daniels (who'll be repping a buncha local cartoonists too), so come on down! And don't forget they also have their DAN CLOWES retrospective up!).

Thanks. BTW I was hoping to have the new King-Cat out for Autoptic in MPLS, but that is seeming dicey at this time. I should still have it out by the end of August tho. Look for it soon!

Thursday, July 18, 2013

The other day I was invited to come out to Kenosha, Wisconsin to participate in a "pop-up gallery" event. Kenosha is a city of about 100,000 people, right on the Illinois border along Lake Michigan. Like many small to medium-size towns in the Midwest (and America) its downtown area has seen happier days. In an effort to bring art to the residents, the Kenosha Art Association has been having pop-up events in several of the vacant storefronts downtown.

For my part, they exhibited oversized prints of every page from my Thoreau at Walden book. It was pretty exciting to see them all up, lining one entire wall of the venue.

I really didn't know what to expect, but there was a nice crowd coming in throughout the night, everyone was friendly, and I sold a bunch of stuff! The audience was truly interested, and willing to engage with the art and the artists, which was refreshing.

At the end of the evening I spoke to Francisco Loyola, the main force behind the pop-ups, about the amount of work he's done to bring these arts events to downtown Kenosha. It hadn't been easy, with years of effort just beginning to bear fruit. I was really impressed with how devoted these folks were to improving the quality of life in their town. It was inspiring.

Friday, July 12, 2013

This Saturday, July 13, from 4-9 PM, I'll be hanging out with some other artists in Kenosha, Wisconsin, at a Pop-Up Gallery, on the first floor of the unnamed building at 5715 6th Avenue. Come one, come all!